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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
Capital IQ database, fewer than 6 percent achieved more than $10 million in revenues by 2010, and fewer than 2 percent grew to more than $50 million. The percentages are worse for US and international companies founded in years since 2000. The increase in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
cost of recent subway projects in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.), subways can be tough medicine. And cost aside, subways are no panacea—disruptive construction, limited residential connections, and for many routes, long trips due to... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding talent.” Dan Morrell: In the wake of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992, Willie Woods (MBA 1993) was... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
often see staged financing in new venture situations. The fourth is sources of financing. While traditional finance courses have focused on classic corporate financing options, we introduce venture capital, angel investors, strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
venture capital firms, angel investors, crowd-funding, and accelerators/incubators. 3) What investors look for. Each source has a different funding process and set of criteria that you need to understand before seeking funding from that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
across the University who are at various stages of developing or launching businesses. During biweekly discussions at the Harvard Innovation Lab, topics run the gamut from attracting angel investors, to recruiting a team without funds, to... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
Lee and Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee are pleased at the progress that KCON, a Korean-oriented music and cultural convention, has made since its debut in Los Angeles (LA) in 2012. In the years since 2012, the event has been held every year in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
will emerge. 2. Listen All The Time Science writer Malcolm Gladwell interviewed two Los Angeles policemen who staked their own lives on their ability to read other people's intentions. One of the officers chose not to shoot a wild-eyed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
programs: one week in Los Angeles to secure Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Fire Safety Protection Association (NFPA) safety licenses and additional certifications from EV manufacturers. Terry is pleased... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
loss of cohesiveness and shared purpose. “We were one big family to start with,” he recalls, “but when we opened a plant in Los Angeles we began to talk about how to sustain the sense of pride and the culture that we had begun to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Los Angeles area called Bibigo, the meeting would also touch on the restaurant's U.S. growth plans and how they might be connected to KCON. More broadly, the executives had to wrestle with the question of whether Americans would ever... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
who originally challenged Chu to apply his experience to these issues, stepped up as an angel investor for Project Antares, named after the brightest star in the night sky. One of the challenges of the project, says Chu, will come in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful companies in his career. He is a mentor to entrepreneurs, an View Details
- Web
Staff Directory | Baker Library
Los Angeles Times and Univision Noticias , contributing to award-winning projects. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Ana holds master’s degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the School of International and... View Details
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
financing remains a pivotal challenge for entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Traditional funding avenues, such as venture capital and angel investors, may be limited, prompting entrepreneurs to explore alternative financing models. We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer to the Hollywood elite. Lenses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
tools and adapting them to their own contexts. We're really transforming their thinking." Feedback from PELP participants supports that assessment. For istance, the Los Angeles Unified School District—the second-largest district in the... View Details
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Harvard Business School
key activist leader in the community development efforts of major U.S. cities including San Francisco and Los Angeles and runs a real estate consultancy firm in Los Angeles. Read More Read Less Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969 The first... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
decision to bring in a COO, transition him to CEO, and assume the position of Chairperson. Also describes communication and control challenges faced when Zhang moves to Los Angeles with her family, and tries to remain involved in her... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace